Company’s Louisiana operations also experienced unplanned outages for most of the third quarter

Steel manufacturer Nucor Corp. said profit in its third quarter would fall below its own expectations, citing unplanned outages as well as the impact of imported steel products, an issue highlighted in recent months by the Trump administration.

Nucor now expects third-quarter earnings per share to be between 75 cents and 80 cents. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected $1.02.